Indiana Room

We Love Our State & We Want To Help You Learn As Much As Possible About Indiana History

The Indiana Room, located on the second floor of the Noblesville Library, houses a special collection dedicated to preserving and providing local and state history, genealogy and family history, and general information pertaining to the State of Indiana.

While the Indiana Room is only found at our Noblesville Branch, you can access many of the resources available in the Indiana Room right here on the library website. If you are looking for information about our great state’s history, you’ve come to the right place.

Visiting The Indiana Room

Using The Indiana Room Materials

You may photocopy most resources without leaving the room. A photocopier is conveniently located in the Indiana Room for your use. Black and white copies and microfilm copies cost 10¢ each. Color copies cost 25¢ each.

Feel free to ask our knowledgeable staff for help in finding materials, using the Indiana Room collection, or in accessing genealogical collections.

Staff is also available to do limited research for you at no charge as time allows. Mail, email, or phone inquiries must be brief and specific. We ask that you pay any copy and postage costs. Obituaries found in microfilmed newspapers may be scanned and emailed at no charge.

Requests may be made:

The Virtual Indiana Room

Databases & Websites

If you access our online databases from within the library, simply click on the database you are interested in and begin exploring. If you wish to search on a computer outside the library, you may get an OCLC login screen that will ask for a username (your library card number) and password (your library card PIN).

If you encounter problems the first time you attempt to log in, please clear your browser’s cookies and try again.

Due to contractual agreements, not all borrower accounts may be able to access these resources from outside the library. However, we encourage you to visit our libraries anytime during our regular business hours to use the databases.

Genealogy and local history databases subscribed to by the library include American Ancestors, Ancestry Library Edition, Fold3, Archives Unbound, Heritage Quest Online, and a digital collection of Hamilton County photographs.

VINE (Vital Information Exchange) is a searchable statewide database, which is composed of Indiana local history and vital records from Indiana libraries and related organizations. We are in the process of adding our Obituary File Index to this database.